The School of Management of Universidad del Rosario presents the third versión of its Winter School, that would take place in bogotá, from Novmeber 30th to December 1st of 2015.
As in former versions, professors from the best business schools around the world would participate in this program whose main objetive is to offer an international experience to the participants.

Conferencistas y cursos

Mark Govers - Maastricht University

Dr. Mark JG Govers (45) is an out-of-the-box thinker from The Netherlands with a PhD in management sciences. He works at the intersection between developing, applying and teaching knowledge focused on socio-technical and theory of constraint thinking. Since 2006, he is an academic scholar at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. As (visiting) professor, he lectures information, management and organizational science in The Netherlands and in Colombia and Peru. Besides his academic work, he is a senior advisor at his own consultancy firm called Archypel Consulting. Projects are related to re-balancing the intersection between structures, cultures, people and IT systems. Besides projects, he enjoys helping managers and leaders with organizational and managerial issues. He is well known for giving challenging and entertainment lectures and workshops, which he calls “knowledge-tainment”.Name of the course:
TOC, Theory of Constraints

Brief description:
"Do you have an out-of-the-box spirit? Do you think about how to improve or transform your way of thinking on organizations? Or, do you desire to find feasible ways to improve or transform organizations and activities with organizations? If you answer any of these questions with “yes”, or desire to answer any with “yes”, the course on the theory of constraints suits you well.
The course focuses on the Theory of Constraints (TOC) of Eliyahu M. Goldratt – the author of the bestselling book the goal. TOC is an overall management philosophy based on the premise that the rate of goal achievement in organizations is limited by a constraint. The concept “constraint” is key in TOC. A constraint limits the performance of the whole organization. Improving the constraint has, therefore, a positive effect on the whole - TOC assumes.

The aim of the summer school is to help participants to experience and gain more insight into TOC’s philosophy. Each management philosophy has its advantages, which can only be achieved if profound knowledge of the philosophy is gained and understood. Furthermore, knowledge has limited impact without experience. Therefore, we will work with theoretical introductions and with exercises in whcih you can apply the gained knowlegde

Daniel Bretones - France Business School

Professor of Management with ESCEM Business SchoolAssociate Research Director PRISM - Paris I Sorbonne University « VSE - Vie & Sciences de l’entreprise » Research Journal Editorial manager Business practice in France, in Europe, in the USA and in Latin America.

Name of the course:
Strategic foresight and scenario planning, multi-scenarios dynamic planning

Brief description:1- Planning with scenarios (8 hours):
This part of the course corresponds to methods developed in the 70s’and in the 80s’
These methods allow to anticipate the futures of companies and/or organizations.

- Foresight, forecasting, planning and scenarios: What do you mean?
- Scenarios methods: Concepts and categorization with illustrations

- Organizations and the competencies’ trees (Connecting the past, the present and the future)

2-Multi scenario dynamic planning ( 8 hours):
This second part of the course aims at showing the complexity of business situations and the relationships between the key variables. Students will learn to use a few ad hoc tools.
A computerized demonstration will be presented to the students.

General objective:
• Students will begin to understand the strategy planning with scenarios in theory and practise.
• Students will gain knowledge of the multi-senarios dynamic planning approach in an organization. They will also learn about systems’ dynamics tools, as they are applied to different processes.
• Students will be able to apply the concepts learnt to case studies.

Expected learning outcomes:
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
• Understand how strategic planning with scenarios can help anticipate the future of organizations
• To know how to implement a strategic planning study and a multi-scenario dynamic planning
• Know the foundations of strategic planning and multi-scenarios dynamic planning

1997-1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Management
James Madison University

PRIMARY TEACHING AREAS AND TOPICS
(Teaching effectiveness rating 4.6/5.0 at Northeastern)
International Business/Global Management, Strategic Management
Business Ethics/Corporate Governance.
International Field Study: Led over 200 MBA students to 5 South American countries between 2008-2015).

Name of the course:
International Business Management

Brief description:
The purpose of this course is that the student analyzes the current situation of internationalization not only in Colombia but also in the world and its impact in the current environment of the internationalization of the business in Colombia. Likewise, the purpose of this course is to make a framework of the new world economic order since the current regional integration processes, taking account its implications in Colombia since the Free Trade Agreements perspective. Also the students know what kind of stages and strategies they have to follow in order to enter in markets abroad.
Finally, the student will comprehend what is the role of the internationalized firms in the world economy in a high dynamic context of commerce and investment flows, strategic alliances, alternatives in order to enter in foreign markets and an increasing movement of services and goods between different kind of organizations around the world, but focusing in the Latin American context (Global Latinas).

General objective:
To understand the internationalization of the firm in the Colombian and the external markets.

Expected learning outcomes: Upon completing the course the students should be able to:
a. Demonstrate an average knowledge of the internationalized firms’ role in the world economy.
b. Develop the import, export and internationalization process of the firm in different environments such as political, economic and cultural fields.
c. Apply the different options which can be used in order to enter in markets abroad and strategic decisions in emerging markets since the marketing perspective.
d. Demonstrate an enough knowledge of the key aspect of the international management.
e. Apply the complexity of the management of the organizations in the international business context.